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The atomic bomb's first victims deserve to be remembered
Eric S. Singer is a cultural historian and author of 'Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb,' a young readers edition of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin's 'American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.'
July 16 is the 80th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb test. At 5:30 a.m. on that date in 1945, 12 young girls attending a summer camp in Ruidoso, New Mexico, were jolted out of their bunks by a thunderous noise.
